St Bartholomew's Day Massacre (In Our Time)
1572 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. In Paris, in the high summer of 1572, a very unusual wedding was happening in the cathedral of Notre Dame. Henri, the young Huguenot King of Navarre, was marrying the King of France’s beloved sister, Margot, a Catholic. Theirs was a union designed to bring together the rival factions
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Around 1572
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)